Earlier in the day, White House press secretary Sean Spicer held a 40-minute briefing with select news outlets, including the Washington Examiner, while excluding others. The press gaggle, held in lieu of a televised daily briefing, addressed what Spicer called “inaccurate” reporting by CNN and the New York Times that cited anonymous sources on about the administration wrongfully asking FBI officials to dispute reports about Trump officials’ communications with Russia during the election.

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Alarmed journalists assailed the White House for the exclusions, including the White House Correspondents’ Association.

“The WHCA board is protesting strongly against how today’s gaggle is being handled by the White House,” Reuters reporter and chairman of the association Jeff Mason said in a statement Friday. “We encourage the organizations that were allowed in to share the material with others in the press corps who were not. The board will be discussing this further with White House staff.”

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